Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cole Younger

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

William Hazlitt

We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. . . .

John Woolman

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

Ameen Rihani

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

Margaret Anderson

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

P. Herbert

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned timber, never gives; / But though the whole world turn to coal, / Then chiefly lives.

G. H. Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

St. Francis

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

John Schafer

It really is kind of a little United Nations here.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Clare Boothe Luce

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Paulo Freire

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Common

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

Robert Dale Owen

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!